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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:31:10 +0100
From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
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Cc: Pascal Maillard <pascalmaillard@web.de>
Subject: Re: independence from ide master/slave
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Pascal Maillard wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> recently, I had changed my IDE disk from primary master to slave. I've got 
> SUSE, Debian and Windows XP installed on it. I was ashamed to see that 
> Windows loaded immediately, but the Linuxes didn't, because all of the 
> filesystems were thought to be on /dev/hda. So I asked myself if there should 
> not be device files that point to the _current_ hard disk (which should be 
> defined at startup by the kernel) and its partitions. This way, it wouldn't 
> matter which IDE channel a disk is connected to. What do you mean about this?

The kernel already supports identification of partitions through user 
defined labels or UUIDs. If I remember correctly, RedHat uses/used them 
per default.

With other distributions, some tweaking may be needed for the root fs.

man 5 fstab
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